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The Ramones: Anthology: Hey Ho Let’s Go! (Warner Archives/Rhino)

Eric Weisbard, The Village Voice, 28 July 1999

FROM THE punk oral history Please Kill Me to Joey and Johnny Ramone on Howard Stern, the mythology around the Ramones lately seems to emphasize failure – the stadiums they didn't pack, their eventual hatred for one another, endless tours trapped inside a persona they'd outgrown, Dee Dee's junkie exile to Europe.

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